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Flash flooding has killed at least 224 people in India and Pakistan over the last 24 hours, according to local officials.
Dozens more are missing after torrential rains struck two mountainous districts in the neighbouring countries.
Some 1,600 people have been brought to safety.
In India-controlled Kashmir, at least 60 people were killed in the remote Himalayan village of Chasoti in the Jammu and Kashmir region on Thursday.
Chasoti, around 85 miles (136km) northeast of Jammu, is the last village accessible to vehicles on the route of an annual Hindu pilgrimage to a mountainous shrine, the Machail Mata temple.
Stranded pilgrims in the village are helped to safety. Pic: AP
A woman mourns the death of her relative killed in flooding. Pic: AP
More than 80 people have been reported missing, officials believe many of those were washed away in the floods.
Forecasters say more heavy rains and floods could hit the area.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, at least 164 people died in flash floods while rescuers evacuated 1,300 stranded tourists from a mountainous district hit by landslides.
Among those killed were 78 people in Buner district in the northwestern district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a government administrator said. Authorities there have declared a state of emergency.
Floodwater hits Buner district. Pic: Pakistan’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority/AP
Locals attend the funeral of victims of flooding in Jibrari village, Salarzai Tehsil, in northern Pakistan. Pic: Reuters
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